Arlington-based Texas Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas will create an integrated regional health network.
Here are 10 things to know about the network.
1. It will be named Southwestern Health Resources.
2. Plans call for the network to include 27 hospitals throughout North Texas, as well as an expansive network of physicians from both organizations, including UTSW faculty, Texas Health employed, university-affiliated and independent.
3. The network is expected "to improve the quality of care and enhance the efficiency of providing health services to North Texans," officials said.
4. It will enable hospitals and physicians to work together, using common health profiles so that each person receives quality care at the most appropriate location. The network will also create increased access to clinical trials and medical specialists, as well as opportunities to expand medical education and research initiatives.
5. Specifically, the network will focus on delivering coordinated care through UT Southwestern's two university hospitals and Texas Health Resource's 25 community hospitals.
6. A key component of this network will be a new joint operating company formed to bring together the three Dallas hospitals — UT Southwestern's William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and Zale Lipshy University Hospital, and Texas Health Resource's Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
7. UT Southwestern's patient care, education and research missions will remain under its ultimate control, and the network will provide expanded opportunities for teaching and clinical research.
8. Texas Health Resources will provide significant support for expansion of UT Southwestern's academic initiatives as part of the overall affiliation between the two organizations.
9. The network will not alter UT Southwestern's commitment to its partnership with Parkland Memorial Hospital or its other relationships.
10. The new network will not utilize any state funds provided to UT Southwestern.
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